Barão de Cocais
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Barão de Cocais | |
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Municipality of Barão de Cocais | |
Country | Brazil |
Region | Southeast |
State | Minas Gerais |
Founded | 24 June 1704 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Décio Geraldo dos Santos (PSB) |
Area | |
• Total | 340.585 km2 (131.501 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 33,232 |
• Density | 83.51/km2 (216.3/sq mi) |
Demonym | ipatinguense |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
Postal Code | 35970-000 to 35983-999 |
HDI (2010) | 0.722 – high[2] |
Website | www |
Barão de Cocais is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020[update] is estimated to be 32,866 people living in an altitude between 682 and 1425 meters.[3] The area of the municipality is 340.675 square kilometres (131.535 sq mi). The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Itabira.
The municipality contains the Gongo Soco mine, once a gold mine and later a large iron ore operation, which closed in April 2016.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "IBGE Barão de Cocais". IBGE. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ Mina de Gongo Soco, em Barão de Cocais, encerra atividades (in Portuguese), 22 April 2016, archived from the original on 20 October 2018, retrieved 2016-08-12
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